Software Development Manager – Platform Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and facilitate the development of a high-performing Platform/DevOps engineering team.

• Cultivate an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment.

• Take ownership of delivery for one or more business applications, encompassing roadmap execution, release planning, risk management, and operational excellence.

• Establish and enhance SLOs, SLIs, on-call practices, incident response protocols, and a postmortem culture.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering stakeholders to synchronize priorities and communicate advancements.

• Manage and evolve Kubernetes/EKS environments across multi-AZ and multi-region architectures.

• Promote GitOps and CI/CD best practices utilizing Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.

• Develop paved roads, templates, and reusable developer workflows to enhance engineering productivity and minimize complexity.

• Facilitate infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code methodologies using Terraform and AWS CDK.

• Enhance observability and operational visibility through logs, metrics, tracing, and synthetic monitoring.

• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure-by-default infrastructure practices.

• Assist in optimizing cloud cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and performance across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems.

• Advocate for continuous improvement, resilience engineering, and operational accountability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience in managing and developing engineering teams.

• Over 7 years of engineering experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or related fields.

• Proven experience in delivering and operating business-critical applications within AWS environments.

• Strong proficiency with AWS services including EKS, EC2, VPC networking, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.

• Experience in Kubernetes operations, Helm, autoscaling, and infrastructure security practices.

• Skilled in building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.

• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK.

• Proficient in programming with Python, Java, TypeScript, or Node.js.

• Familiarity with SRE practices, including incident management, SLIs/SLOs, and operational excellence.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder partnership abilities.

• Preferred: Experience in building or operating Internal Developer Platforms and self-service engineering workflows.

• Preferred: Knowledge of service meshes, policy engines, secrets management, and platform governance.

• Preferred: Experience supporting multi-region architectures and resilience engineering initiatives.

• Preferred: Understanding of observability platforms, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring strategies.

• Preferred: Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, or SQS.

• Preferred: Familiarity with SOX, SOC2, compliance frameworks, and FinOps practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Potential inclusion of annual cash bonuses.

• Possible stock grants.

• Comprehensive benefits package available.

• Health and financial benefits offered.

• Time away benefits included.

• Everyday wellness benefits provided.

• In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be offered or required.